Pocket for garments.



Ptented out. 2s, |902.

J. MOELTER.

POCKET FOR GARMENTS.

{Apphcatxou led Aug 4, 1902.)

(No Model.)

UNITED 4STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MOELTER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM ROSENBERG, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

POCKET FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,199, dated October 28, 1902. Application iiled August 4, 1902. vSerial No. 118.208. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MOELTER, a citizen of theUnited Statesn'esiding` at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pockets for Garments, of which the following is'a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pockets for garments.

The object of the invention is to provide a pocket especially adapted for coats worn by street-car conductors, to which it is necessary to have frequent access for the purpose of making change.

Other features of the invention will be fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure lis a vertical sectional view through the pocket and the garment to which it is attached. Fig. 2 is a detailed perspective view of the reinforce for the lower edge of the pocket-aperture, and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of another reinforce for the pocket-aperture.

Similar reference-numerals designate similar parts in the several views.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, l designates the material of the garment, having the usual aperture for the pocket, and to which my invention is secured, the lining being omitted.

2 designates a reinforce made of leather, which is held to the garment by lines of stitching 3. This reinforce 2 is slitted at 4 4, the said slits extending from the bottom upwardly for about one-half the distance of the material of which the said reinforce is formed. The leather between the slits 4 4 projects down into the pocket-aperture, covering the upper edge of the latter, and is held at the lower edge by the stitching 3. The lower portion of the pocket-aperture is provided with a reinforce 5, also of leather, which fits over the edge of the said aperture and ex-` tends downwardly on both the inner and outer' surfaces thereof and terminates even'with the lower edge of the reinforce 2 and is held to the material forming the garment by the lines struction, having the lower end projecting up` even with the lower edge of the pocket-apertu re and held between the reinforce 5 by lines of stitches 6. The upper end of the pocket 7 extends up at the rear of the reinforce 2 and the upper edge of the pocket-aperture and is held by the lines of vstitches 3.

While I have described the two reinforces 2 and 5 as being constructed of leather, it is obvious any other heavy material may be substituted in lieu thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination with a garment having the pocket-aperture, of the pocket, the reinforce, 2,- secured to the outer surface of the garment, and having the slits, 4, and the reinforce, 5, on the lower edge off the pocketaperture having the ends thereof projecting into and secured between said slits, 4, of the reinforce, 2, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with a garment having the pocket-aperture, of the pocket, the reinforce, 2, securedto the outer surface of said garment and provided with slits, 4, the material between the said slits projecting down through the pocket-aperture and secured at its lower edge, and a reinforce, 5, secured on the inner surface of the pocket and extending through the pocket-'aperture and secured to the outer surface of the garment, the ends of the said reinforce 5 projecting into and secured between the slits, 4,'substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN MOELTER.

Witnesses:

CHAPIN A. FERGUSON HERMAN NEWNAN. 

